There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in.

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.

Where you are today is where you're from tomorrow.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.

Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.