I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

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.

We awaken by asking the right questions.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Jobs follow people. People don't follow jobs.

I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.