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.

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

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.

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

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

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