I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.