His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.

People go away and they don't come back.