Doing What You Do Well Is Death.

To Take Possession Of A City Of Which You Are Not A Native You Must First Fall In Love There.

Perhaps All Of Life Is No More Than A Long Preparation For The Leaving Of It.

Most Crime Fiction, No Matter How 'hard-boiled' Or Bloodily Forensic, Is Essentially Sentimental, For Most Crime Writers Are Disappointed Romantics.

Fictional Characters Are Made Of Words, Not Flesh; They Do Not Have Free Will, They Do Not Exercise Volition. They Are Easily Born, And As Easily Killed Off.

Life Is Tragic But It's Equally Comic.