I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald. He's wily, talented and-rarest of the rare-a true original. He writes melancholy poetry that actually has melancholy poets wandering around, but don't turn your backs on them, either. I am always eager to see what he's going to do next.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.

it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.