This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.