When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

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.

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.