The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and de….

L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregat….

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something.

I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if so….

In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Lov….

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell a….

I think, living in America, we're so bombarded with God all the time that in certain ways I'm making statements against that bombardment, you know? I….

I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose..

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction..

I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as ….

I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major econom….

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change..

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me..

If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very ne….

I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great tha….

But we are what we are, and humans will always hate..

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts..

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present..

They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never c….

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore..

There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone..