I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.

People want you to be ordinary. They don't like it when people are different. They don't like it when a man soars over their heads while they stand in the dirt. People hate you when you're special; it reminds them of everything that they aren't.