The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

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

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

Dream big but think small.