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.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

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.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

I'm way past the idea of using ideology or political view as a gauge of human character. I simply don't believe it. And many people, I tend to think most people, feel that way. Since I don't have to worry about it, I'm happy.