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

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.

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.

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?

A baby is the source of pure joy, a bundle of a warm smile, and a heart of dancing love.

Shenanigans is a financial model on the catwalk.

The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.

Still we say as we go,-"Strange to think by the wayWhatever there is to know,That shall we know one day.

Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

Look down - look down that lonesome road Before you travel on

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

All rock and roll is homosexual.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.