Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.

I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

Everybody counts or nobody counts

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.