I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.

I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.