Doubt is faith's shadow.

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.

What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.

What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

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

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.