Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)