Well, the clues are there. They always are. Which is why when crimes are solved decades after the fact, it's obvious that the clues had always been right in front of them. A traffic ticket in Brooklyn is how they got ["Son of Sam" serial killer] David Berkowitz. You've just got to look.

You get up in the morning because you might meet a woman. And if you stay at home by yourself, alone, you will not meet a woman.

And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

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.

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.

Some people don’t respond to civility.