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.

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.

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.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

The thing with do-overs it’s that they don’t exist. Second chances are just another chance to mess up.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

The sights of infinity can be too strong. They can scorch the soul. It's best to take infinity on a little at a time.

When you die, you don’t go to sleep. You go home to nonphysical reality, and you are very much awake.

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.