I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.

The Force deals a lot with the heroin epidemic, which I'm sorry to know people are experiencing in Canada.

If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.

That sounds like Anthony Soprano. He has a point. I've said it before: if you're black and you sell dope, you end up in the big house; if you're white and you sell a large amount of dope, you end up visiting the White House. So it's a matter of race and it's a matter of scale, frankly.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

I try to pay attention to language. I think that as a general rule, we as writers talk too much and we should listen more. I read my dialogue out loud to myself because I think that's when you catch the wrong notes and the wrong tones.

I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.