I View People Two Ways. They're Either

Momentum Was Momentum, Whether You Found It In Music Or On The Street Or In The Beat Of Your Own Heart.

You Can't Patch A Wounded Soul With A Band-aid.

Well, Did He Do It?" She Always Asked The Irrelevant Question. It Didn't Matter In Terms Of The Strategy Of The Case Whether The Defendant "did It" Or Not. What Mattered Was The Evidence Against Him -- The Proof -- And If And How It Could Be Neutralized. My Job Was To Bury The Proof, To Color The Proof A Shade Of Gray. Gray Was The Color Of Reasonable Doubt.

I Feel I'm Functioning At Some Level As A Journalist Because Even Though I Write Fiction, I'm Trying To Get The World Accurate.

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.