If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

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.

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.