Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.

I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writing should be like a pane of glass - there's another world on the other side and your vision carries you there, but you're not aware of having passed through a barrier to get there.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.