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

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

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

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

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.

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.

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