Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.

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.

They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

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