Live Your Life The Way You Want.

There Are Few Writers Who, If They Publish Anything, I Am Going To Buy It: Ian Mcewan, Scott Turow, Pat Conroy - He Was A Buddy Of Mine And I Always Read His Stuff. Also: Harlan Coben, Elmore Leonard, John Le Carre, But He's Pushing Ninety.

Shame Was An Emotion He Had Abandoned Years Earlier. Addicts Know No Shame. You Disgrace Yourself So Many Times You Become Immune To It.

I Don't Want To Force My Politics On My Readers.

Prisons Are Hate Factories, Pastor, And Society Wants More And More Of Them.

I Did Get Tired Of Hearing That Criticism Years Ago. That Is Not A Compliment. Being Labeled A "beach Read" Is A Put-down. So, I Did Deliberately Set Out To Write A Book, Camino Island, That Would Be Very Entertaining And Compulsively Readable And We Published It On June 6 In Time For Summer Vacation, Hoping That People Would Buy It And Take It To The Beach.