“In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not ...” — John Burdett Quote

“In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not?”

“I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.”

“Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.”

“Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.”

“There's this attitude that you have to love your characters, and I think that's a nice trick if you have trouble identifying with bad behavior but I don't think I have trouble with that.”