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

I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to.

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.

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

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