I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.