Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.

High school popularity is so fickle.

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.