A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.