There's none with me, although you've seen me before - I'm outrageous.

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.

It's not like there's a law against flying.""Yes there is. The law of gravity.

Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads.

I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner.

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

That's a weird way to torture yourself. Just watch a movie, over and over, that you hate. That's really funny - that's probably exactly what hell is like.

I'm like the queen of planning and scheduling and I'm trying very hard to stop it.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.