The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

Hey. Sometimes to conclusions.