Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

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.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

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