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.

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones.

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

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

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.