Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.

Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.