Michael Dibdin quotes:

Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.

The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.

Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.

There can be no true friends without true enemies

Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.

What is true for a given person in a given situation is not necessarily true for that person in a different situation, or for another person in the same situation, and still less if both are different.

You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.