If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?

The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.