Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

I learn things late-and only the hard way.

Failure makes Success more appreciable

When you are looking for love, then love is spreading its net to catch you.

I believe in the magic and in the authority of words

If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

Show me a woman who is prouder of her clean kitchen than of her collection of lingerie and I'll show you a woman with enlarged pores.

Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.

A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.