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

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

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

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

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

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

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