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

the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty..

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

The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them….

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

The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever..

I'm a bit of a tech geek myself..

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head..

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

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design..

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

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 gen….

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me..

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes..

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

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time..

But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. Y….

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things ….

There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful..

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

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