Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

Can't complain because nobody listens.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

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.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

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.