A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

— Greg Iles

I don’t really understand the world anymore. But maybe there’s some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.

— Greg Iles

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

— Greg Iles

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

— Greg Iles

Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We’re still in the cave. It’s just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die. . .

— Greg Iles

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

— Greg Iles

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

— Greg Iles

The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

— Greg Iles

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

— Greg Iles

We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.

— Greg Iles