The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about..

The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal..

I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want..

No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yo….

I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady..

The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that..

My wife always has a splitting archetype whenever I want to have sex..

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues..

You often have a great director who's like, "Well, actually I don't even want to reveal you until the end of this scene" or something like that and i….

We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that w….

The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun..

Knowledge makes everything simpler..

Someone else's success is not your failure..

Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down..

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday..

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself..

We all have those times in relationships, whether it's work or personal or family or whatever it is, where there's something that's eating at you and….

You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place..

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything..

Whoever is holding the belt right now is the one I want to fight. I want to get that belt again. It's mine..

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the perso….