I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will