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

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

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.

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

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

Can't complain because nobody listens.

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.