There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire..

I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.'….

It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason..

I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to m….

Doubt is faith's shadow..

I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its ….

What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die..

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read..

Love is a greater mystery than death..

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living..

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean..

Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and didn’t….

With regard to power, women don't have the vanity men have. They don't need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other th….

Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionar….

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others..

We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitute….

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete wit….

Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in ….

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a….

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the a….

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside.