Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

I only get writer's block about once a day.

I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.

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

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

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

Poise and indifference so often look the same.