A calm environment is for after I finish work.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.