Theatres are curious places, magician’s trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and...

There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.” Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion

Some people are murderers of their own gifts. They wait and see their dreams suffer from deficiency of actions. The end result is that the world is robbed as they baggage their dead dreams for...

She tried to kill me. The problem is she did it slowly, almost invisibly, so the whole murder would take about 50 years.

Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.

There are men who put the weight of a coffin into their deliberations as they bargain for Cashmere shawls for their wives, as they go up the staircase of a theatre, or think of going...

And the blood remembers what the heart has never learned. The approach to kill. (“The Moon Of Montezuma”)

Don’t make me cover your face with a pillow until you see my side of things.””Isn’t that called murder?

The best part about a murder mystery dinner, of course, is the dinner. I make a killer Bubble and squeak, if you know what I mean. The mystery, of course, is what’s in the dinner.

Emotional speculation is to deductive reasoning what weeds are to a garden – at first sight they appear to belong, but eventually they obscure that which one hopes will come into bud.

History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn’t it?

I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someone who had just staggered out of her car after an accident on a freeway. This...

One’s thoughts are one’s most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

It is. We also eat hamburgers and spaghetti.

The best method for getting away with something outrageous is to do it right in front of people, and then tell them they’re not seeing what they think they’re seeing.

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?

Christ can forgive you,” he whispered, though he didn’t believe it. There wasn’t a hint of compassion in those ice-blue eyes.”That’s grand,” she said.Her features became again those of the pleasant brown-haired nurse. She smiled,...

If you don’t like the path your life has taken, choose another.

nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

Will you be all right?” she askedHow could I be?Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you’d just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered....

There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

Where there is murder, anything can happen.

The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for...

Murder can be made to look like suicide, and suicide can be made to look like Murder

I killed my clone. It’s not murder, it’s partial suicide. I want a stiff drink, but not alcohol. I want formaldehyde.

This guy was a class act. And that class was Acting 101. If I were the professor, I’d have given him an F—for murder.

Losing a child must be the second most painful thing ever. The most painful thing would be to lose the child, find him, and then watch him be murdered by his sibling, who happens to...

But what if the monsters come?””Fancy.” Kit looked away from the drama to stare at her sister, surprised. “We are the monsters.

His remorse was purely physical. Only his body, strained nerves, and cowering flesh were afraid of the drowned man. Conscience played no part in his terrors, and he had not the slightest regret about killing...

Men should think twice before making widowhood women’s only path to power.

Who’s they?” He wanted to know. “Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?””Every one of them,” Yossarian told him.”Every one of whom?””Every one of whom do you think?””I haven’t any idea.””Then how...

This education we’re giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that’s what makes it so painful. We’re showing them how to accomplish the ritual murder of ourselves.

The bistro was his secret weapon in tracking down murderers. Not just in Three Pines, but in every town and village in Quebec. First he found a comfortable café or brasserie, or bistro, then he...

I guess whoever built and buried that IED out there in the desert will never know how far that blast traveled. But all things ripple out, cause shrapnel.

Why does anyone commit murder?’ he asked in a low voice.’I-‘I blinked.’How should I know?”Three reasons,’ Christopher said. He held up one finger. ‘Love.’ Another finger. ‘Revenge.’ And finally, a third finger. ‘Profit…

These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people’s hearts.

What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? — to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and...

Lies can be expensive to maintain, Alexa. And I’m sure we haven’t seen one percent of the price that the lies in this case ultimately will exact.

I wish I could find MY books listed on GOODREADS – DODGING JOE, THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN’T EXPLAIN, THE BITTER GRAPES – ll available through Amazon and Createspace –

I am not much of a mind to touch

I’d imagine “murderess” trumps “wife” when defining a close relationship.

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.

We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until we know whether we have the right to kill our fellow men, or the right...

He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years he thought his mind may one day blur, should he survive to an...

And she swung the old oar at him with all her strength.It hit with a great thwack, splintering in two, and he went over the side, into the dark, cold waters of the lake, sinking...

Not according to this,” Jazz said, taking the report. “No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it.””Well, there’s that,” Howie said, sounding relieved. Jazz wondered at that – was it really so much better...

Host: For those of you just tuning in, our guests tonight are the amazing Murder Magician, and his lovely minion, The Assistant…Assistant: Charmed, I’m sureHost: Who recently killed The Rumor. And you were awarded the...

If I tried to mail our love, it’s irregular shape and unknowable dimensions would make it difficult to box up. That’s why I’d chop it up and stuff it in a garbage bag, like it...