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

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that we will ever see. If they could keep writing and keep a voice alive, keep people hopeful through their poetry, then I would be ashamed to stop and to give in. It would be really self-indulgent, unacceptable, and inexcusable to walk away from it.

I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to New York or Paris. But after that intense summer, I never thought that I wanted to live any place but Chicago. It also made me see what the stakes were in the civil rights movement. And it made me see what real hatred was like and the forms that it took. But it also made me understand how powerless ordinary people feel in their lives.

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.