The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets updates from UFOlogists, graphologists, scientologists, paranoiacs, and every sort of conspiracy theorist.

Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.

If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.