Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.