I Like To Be Alone So I

For A Much Lauded Writer, I'm Not Terribly Self-absorbed. In Social Situations, Which Are Difficult For Me - I Mean, This Is An Interview - I'm Normally Uncomfortable Talking About Myself.

I Don't Know Anybody In The Underworld. I Make This Stuff Up. I Don't Know Any Criminals.

I Don't Have Children. I Serve The World And I Serve God By Living As Deep Within My Work As I Can, Reveling In The Language Of Other Times And Putting It Forth For The World.

It's All Sex For Me. Politics Is Sex. Race Is Sex. It's The Novel. It's The Novel!

I Think The Great Unspoken Theme In Noir Fiction Is Male Self-pity. It Pervades Noir Movies.