I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in. I suppose that's one reason I don't have much respect for fiction that seems to be game playing.

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

None of us are immune to grief, and everyone who has suffered loss understands that grief changes, but you never wake up one morning and you've moved on. It stays with you, and, you know, you ebb and flow.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Mexico cannot put up with this scenario of death and kidnapping.