Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.