God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

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

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

People get careless when they're feeling safe.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.