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

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

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

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 be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

L.A. ispolluted. It's overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in San Francisco, and Joan broke it off with me, and I needed a place to live. I'd been divorced. And I needed to write movies and TV shows to earn a living. Alimony. All that. So I figured what the hell, I'll go back to L.A.