Mystery books are different. Genre books are a sonnet. ... If you stay inside the format, you can say anything you want.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

Morals are private. Decency is public.