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

- 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

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

My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that …

- Peter James

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

- 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

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

We're full of electricity, and the walls and floor of a building contain carbon - the same makeup as a video tape - and I think we give off a huge am…

- Peter James

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

- Peter James