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.

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

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

Can't complain because nobody listens.