I Realize Now I Could Have Gotten

What Is Important Is Not What You Hear Said, It's What You Observe.

To Write More From Memory And To Be More Creative - I Think - Because I Am Still Writing About Los Angeles But I Can't Walk Out My Door And Immediately Drive To Places I Am Writing About. So I Think It Has Been A Very Good Change For Me After 11 Books To Start Writing This Way.

That's The Irony In The Work: The Best Stories Are The Worst Things That Happen. My Best Times Were Somebody Else's Worst.

It’s Lucky No One Else Knows What Our Most Secret Thoughts Are. We’d All Be Seen For The Cunning, Self-aggrandizing Fools We Are.

I'm A Pretty Harsh Critic When It Comes To My Own Stuff Or Things That Come From My Work.