Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

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.'

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other writers who know a lot more than me about it. I know enough about it to do a little bit of background on laboratory techniques and stuff. But it kind of bores me.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

I wanted Dexter to have a family that could love him and understand him.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

If you look at the primitive societies that we know about, the worst thing that could have happened to you was to be captured and be turned over to the women.

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

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

Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay

I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.