Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

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

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

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

How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.