There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

Can't complain because nobody listens.

It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.

I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.