Jeff Lindsay

“When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.”

“And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.”

“Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?”

“In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did.”

“I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.”

“The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.”

“A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.”

“For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.”

“I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?”

“I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with 'Boy, he can really put a clause together!'”

“I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.”

“When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'”

“They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.”

“Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.”

“No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.”

“I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.”

“At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.”

“The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?”

“But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.”

“I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.”