John Sandford

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.