Crime fiction is the perfect vehicle for exploring the darker side of human nature.
To survive is to find meaning in suffering.
Your struggles don't define you; how you overcome them does.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
On morals: "The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil."
The theatre is the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.