“Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.”

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

You want to set this one down so you can take a breath, and keep reading–all at the same time.

This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . . . Johnston is an excellent writer.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.

Silence in times of suffering is the best.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

Some of my best and most glorious love stories are friendships.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.