I never wanted to show up and just say, "Okay, what are we doing today? Let's wing it!"

Depending on which side you're on, maybe the police are too objective and need to be a bit more subjective.

When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.