What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

The characters I write about are very internal.

Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.