my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

there is no truly honest autobiography.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?