The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.
It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.
I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.
I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L. A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.
My guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too late. I find that moving. It's not a life I'd want to live. But, then, I'm not completely my books.
I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.
Football changes and so do people.
If God calls you, pick up the damn phone!