Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest jo…

- Jonathan Kellerman

Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

- Jonathan Kellerman

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

- Jonathan Kellerman

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

- Jonathan Kellerman

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

- Jonathan Kellerman

At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the wat…

- Jonathan Kellerman

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

- Jonathan Kellerman

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

- Jonathan Kellerman

Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the reader…

- Jonathan Kellerman