“My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.”

“My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.”

“Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side.”

“My life is ruled by four Ws: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.”

“Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.”

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step unless you missed it.”

“The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the fla...”

“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.”

“My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.”