Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.