The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

The difference between lonely and lovely is only of one single alphabet. That single alphabet is called Friends.

Just give me more, better memories to replace the bad ones. I’ll be back to normal before we know it.

Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.

If the path you are walking today won't lead you to your desired destination, then you are STROLLING

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.

When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.