People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.

When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.

Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else.

sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.