Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.
I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.
I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.
Human beings create more than they destroy.
Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
I go back and forth as to whether I think Nancy Pelosi's really this dumb or not. Although, every time I hear her speak I get closer and closer to concluding that she is this dumb.