I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.