The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

You're just too poor to get rich.

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.