If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.