You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'

We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.