Bernie Madoff is spending his jailhouse life poring over American romance novels. “I spend most of my time in my room, reading . . . and this is my secret — Danielle Steel. Yes, Danielle Steel,” he tells the Financial Times. Madoff said he also spends time at Butner prison in North Carolina with a psychologist, contemplating crime. “There are these mafia people who can kill people all day long, do terrible things and then go home to their families,” the Ponzi scammer observed. “I used to wonder how it was that people in wars could shoot people. But . . . you can compartmentalize things in your life.”