I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.