The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because…

- Sara Paretsky

If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people w…

- Sara Paretsky

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

- Sara Paretsky

I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could have a sex life and not be a bad pe…

- Sara Paretsky

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

- Sara Paretsky

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

- Sara Paretsky

There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those wh…

- Sara Paretsky

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

- Sara Paretsky

Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a visio…

- Sara Paretsky