No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.

Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.