We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are.

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

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

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.

Good police officers are ugly.