Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

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

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

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

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

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

Predisposition is not predestination.