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.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

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

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

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

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.