"I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do."

"The knives of jealousy are honed on details."

"I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid."

"I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes."

"I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money."

"I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden."