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.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.

I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

If something stands between you and your success - move it. Never be denied.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater.

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.