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 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 surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

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.

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

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