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

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals..

The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and co….

I almost had an intransigent mental spirit. I always wanted things..

You try to learn who you are. You work hard. You've either got it or you don't when it comes to writing books. And you tend to only get these things ….

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

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

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, ta….

My mother and I will continue on some level that I havent determined yet. I think my mothers a great character, and I have to say that giving my moth….

I'm grateful for the life I have. I lived bad for many years, and I've got a great life now. I've got the kind of life people only dream about..

I kept saying, "Stop me now. It's going to my head." I got some photos. Really, I did! It's not my noblest sexual self in these moments, but I want t….

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

I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only ….

I work within the framework of a very concerted, purely driven Protestant Christian mindset. I had dark early circumstances. I went inward. I have a ….

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers..

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

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively..

Well, the clues are there. They always are. Which is why when crimes are solved decades after the fact, it's obvious that the clues had always been r….

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life..

And the only forms of socialism in the world that were then getting results - malign ones, as it was - were the Fascist and Soviet republics. Fascism….

I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't possess that kind of mind. I have a….