“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

We don’t know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

All you need to do is hold on tight and believe.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Getting smart on crime’ does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

It is a crime not to try to move ahead with fear, leaving your dreams in the middle. Your fear makes you commit this crime.

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

Low aim, not failure, is the crime.

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.