I Would Like To Provoke Ambiguous Responses

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

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

When I Was A Kid, Eisenhower Had Been President Forever, And All Of A Sudden, Everything In The World Was All About Jack Kennedy. I Was 12, Interested In Politics; My Father Was From Massachusetts, Had An Accent Like Kennedy.

I Needed To Address That I've Had Some Profound Moral Shifts In My Own Life.

The Novel Is Final Form; It's The Ultimate Individual Final Form. Television And Motion Pictures Never Get There. You'd Be Fabulous To Think That Something You Write Is Even Going To Be Filmed. I Give It The Best Shot Of Which I'm Capable. But It's More A Payday For Me. And If I Didn't Have Alimony And The Full-time Assistant.