Standing Down famous quotes

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

My name, Paloma, means 'dove' in Spanish. It stands as a symbol of peace and purity.

I do not know everything, I never will, and that is OK.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts

I always love costume, and I'm always heavily involved in how things should look. Or how they should feel really, because that's part of the way I suppose I get into character in some ways. It's a lot about costume.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.

If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.