Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

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

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

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

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

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

My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how to fight, so I'd lie awake at night and think of ways to kill him. But I knew I'd get caught, so I decided to put it in a book and get paid for it! I always think it's odd that a whole career came out of that homicidal impulse.