I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.