It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

Can't complain because nobody listens.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.