My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and right-wing to be hip, too well-educated to be white trash, too sexy to be square. They really didn't fit any mold. They weren't really hipsters. They were just - they were two of a kind, those two.

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!

Periodically I just notch up. And everyone among my colleagues thinks that Perfidia - in its accessibility, its big throbbing heart - will be the biggest notch up yet. We'll see what happens. It's on my ass.

To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

My mother and I will continue on some level that I havent determined yet. I think my mothers a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.

There's none with me, although you've seen me before - I'm outrageous.