My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

Salt. Wound. Together at last.

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.

People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.

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