All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. This book has it all-unforgettable characters, beautiful language, throat-constricting suspense.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.