I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give them in response. It's an exquisite novel full of heart, soul, passion and intelligence, and it's the one this great New York author was born to write.