I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.