My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.

Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.