Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

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

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

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

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

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