You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can’t see the truth.

The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.