People get careless when they're feeling safe.

I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

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.

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.