When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with

I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the black community, centuries of government and economic forces were pushing on them. I went in with a kind of arrogance, maybe, that came from living in a very intellectual family, and I left knowing that there was a lot about the way people lived that I didn't know about.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.