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

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.

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.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Love as a river loves the ocean.

When we learn to accept, appreciate and love others for being different is when we will find peace, joy and happiness.

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

But I'll tell you this: When I lose my athleticism, it's time to go.

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

I see but one rule: to be clear.