I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.

What molds us is what maims us.

He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.