"Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it."
— Sue Grafton

"There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain."
— Sue Grafton (E is for Evidence)

"It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex."
— Sue Grafton

"Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates."
— Sue Grafton (A is for Alibi)

"You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change."
— Sue Grafton (T is for Trespass)

"To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth."
— Sue Grafton

""He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?""
— Sue Grafton (S is for Silence)

"I love being single. It's almost like being rich."
— Sue Grafton

"All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit."
— Sue Grafton

"In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food."
— Sue Grafton (Q is for Quarry)

"I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale."
— Sue Grafton

"I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two."
— Sue Grafton

"I love being single. It's almost like being rich."
— Sue Grafton