I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I know him only casually, but I like him a lot. I think he likes my books.