There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.

Everybody counts or nobody counts

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.