Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational..

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate..

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman..

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called..

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate..