Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

What comes from the heart will go to the heart

The one, whose worldly entanglements have gone, is called the ‘Absolute Person’ (Sampoorna Purush).

Your mindset brings together your attitude, perceptions, experience, interpretations, opinions, beliefs, values, and understanding to determine how you think, act, walk, talk, behave, and engage.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

You feel better in the short run when you have a tub of ice cream, but in the long run, you don't.

I don't have many easy songs.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.