Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.

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.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

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.

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

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

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.