Charles Bronson

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.