So many book sections in newspapers and magazines used to be lively and vibrant places. Now they are gone. You just don't see many reviews anymore. I can't control that, so I don't worry about it. I just try to do what I do and write books that people find every entertaining. I don't worry about the critics.

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

Poverty is a great equalizer