"I never had a bad time in the library. I never had a bad time in a bookstore."

"You can't deny the past; you can't deny what you've done. Only by admitting who you are and what you've done can you ever hope to change."

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

"Sometimes when you're writing, you're not writing, you're just staring at the wall. And that's okay."

"If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (but neither of those two amateur-night surgeons was ever caught, …"