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When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
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I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.
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Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.
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The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.
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There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.
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There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.
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It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.
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I really only write about inner landscapes and most people don't see them, because they see practically nothing within, because they think that because it's inside, it's dark, and so they don't see anything. I don't think I've ever yet, in any of my books, described a landscape. There's really nothing of the kind in any of them. I only ever write concepts. And so I'm always referring to "mountains" or "a city" or "streets." But as to how they look: I've never produced a description of a landscape. That's never even interested me.
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The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
