I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.

Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay