The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

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.

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

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.

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

I almost had an intransigent mental spirit. I always wanted things.

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.