"The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots."

"The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity."

"If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction."

"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."

"The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author."

"On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare."

"Postmodernism cost literature its audience."

"The great break of my literary career was going to law school."