I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.