The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.

Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.

Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.