I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"

Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.