I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' " "Me, too," I said.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.

I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.