I Learn Things Late-and Only The Hard

If I Wanted To Make Money I Would Have Written Another Novel.

Closure Is A Preposterous Concept Worthy Of The Worst Aspects Of American Daytime Tv.

I Don't Think I Came Out Of Anybody. I Think I Developed Out Of The Influences I Described In My Dark Places. American History, L.a. Of The 1950s. I'm Comfortable With That.

L.a. Ispolluted. It's Overpopulated. But It Is Very Much Home. It Was Inevitable For Me, The Moving Back. I Was Living In San Francisco, And Joan Broke It Off With Me, And I Needed A Place To Live. I'd Been Divorced. And I Needed To Write Movies And Tv Shows To Earn A Living. Alimony. All That. So I Figured What The Hell, I'll Go Back To L.a.

I Love Thinking About American History, Thinking About La History. I Love Brooding On Crime.