Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

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

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.