I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.

Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.

I like to write about the moment of light in the hour of darkness.

Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.

Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.