I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

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

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.