If the fans think I'm a savior, that's fine. But they have to understand I'm one of 25 guys. I can't do it all.
Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.
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.
Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
I give people my heart and my full attention.
War is an admission of failure
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.