I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.

I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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

favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

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