Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.'

You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.

Magic is the cheat codes for the world.