Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

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

The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.