People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.