But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

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.

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.