The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what I’ve come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I’m after.

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what I’ve come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I’m after.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.