All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.

The most important things are the hardest to say

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

It's a tough life if you don't weaken.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.