It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

I like my whisky old and my women young.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

There are no really new stories anymore.

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.