“Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.”

“I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.”

“When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.”

“I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.”