I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

I learn things late-and only the hard way.

I want a long life, measured not in days and years but the moments that we spent together

Who I am? Am I thinking?

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

My administration will not answer to donors or lobbyists or special interests, but we will serve the citizens of the United States of America, believe me.

I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.

After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.

I am the exception to the rule that all senators see themselves in the Oval Office.