A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.

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.

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

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.