""There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.""
— Michael Connelly (The Brass Verdict)

"...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character."
— Michael Connelly

"In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process."
— Michael Connelly (The Poet)

"What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe."
— Michael Connelly (Trunk Music)