A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

In my heart Im just a lucky waitress.

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

People in everyday life can sniff out the neediness of a performer trying to earn love.

The more love we bring into our lives, the more satisfied and at peace we are and the more joy we experience.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.

People who are crazy rarely question whether they're crazy.

It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.