As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.