"There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain."
"I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students."
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"Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion."
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