The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

The good thing about working in children's publishing is that they change how they interact, so you have to be innovative and I work with innovative people every day.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.