Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain . . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That’s a known fact of science.

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

Every time you try to flirt with her, a puppy dies.

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.