Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.