Love Is A Greater Mystery Than Death.

Crime Fiction Is A Genre For Writing Stories About People - About Conflict, About Guilt, About Passion, About The Human Condition.

I Don't Think I'll Ever Feel As Famous Or As Popular As I Felt When I Was A 17-year-old Soccer Player In Modle. Only About 20,000 People Live There And 12,000 Of Them Come To Every Game. Running Onto The Pitch Each Week Was Just The Most Fantastic Feeling. Nothing Can Beat That.

We're Capable Of Understanding That Someone Has To Drop An Atomic Bomb On A Town Of Innocent Civilians, But Not That Others Have To Cut Up Prostitutes Who Spread Disease And Moral Depravity In The Slums Of London. Hence We Call The Former Realism And The Latter Madness.

It Was As If The Demise Of The Owner Had Lent The Flat A Physical Void It Hadn't Had Before. At The Same Time He Had The Feeling That He Wasn't Alone. Harry Believed In The Existence Of The Soul. Not That He Was Particularly Religious As Such, But It Was One Thing Which Always Struck Him When He Saw A Dead Body: The Body Was Bereft Of Something...the Creature Had Gone, The Light Had Gone,there Was Not The Illusory Afterglow That Long-since Burned-out Stars Have. The Body Was Missing Its Soul And It Was The Absence Of The Soul That Made Harry Believe.

All Interesting Heroes Have An Achilles Heel.