I had been going out to Orient for several years.

I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].

Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

I like to be alone, I mean, I really love to be alone more than anything else, and I don't really like to talk about myself to death, and I don't like to share too much, and I don't really have dreams of extreme fame or even extreme respect.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.