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

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.

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.

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.

My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do.

The more we preach hatred, division and putting up a wall, the less we progress.

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

I'm telling you, people. Everyday we wake up is another blessing. Follow your dreams and don't let anyone stop you. Never say never.

What good are insights? They only make things worse.

The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!