You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones.