Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.

Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot.

Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!