Love is a greater mystery than death.

I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.