Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

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

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

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.

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

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.