Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

I don't know what frightens me more

Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.