Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

- Peter James

Women are afraid of walking at night, that someone pulls them into an alley and rapes them. That almost never happens. I mean, 98% of people who are …

- Peter James

Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we mig…

- Peter James

The world is changing and people don't like change.

- Peter James

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

- Peter James

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

- Peter James

Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.

- Peter James

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

- Peter James

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had…

- Peter James