“To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.”
“All I know is that I am excessively calculating, especially when I appear not to be.”
“Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.”
“At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.”
“Feeling after God is dangerous business.”
“I write mysteries to say something, not just for entertainment”
“I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car”