So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

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 just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

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