I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.

I like to have fun out there. I work hard, and then I get to cut loose and go out and tour, and I enjoy it. I like to go out and meet the people. I love to sell books.

I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.

Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?