I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost ti….

Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of reason and….

What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest. 'What do you do?' 'What do you do?' she asks, her voice shaking. 'Don't ask me, please. Okay, Clay?'….

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?.

Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist..

And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic o….

I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs..

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don'….

Fear never shows up and the party ends early..

There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me..

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was somethi….

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment..

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him..

I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period..

The better you look, the more you see..

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you..

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked..

I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a ver….

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it..

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you..

After a while you learn that everything stops..