Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.