There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.

I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.