I Love Movies. Movies Have Influenced Me

Las Vegas Was Like That. There Was A Visceral Attraction Here. The Bold Promise Of Money And Sex. But The First Was A Broken Promise, A Mirage, And The Second Was Fraught With Danger, Expense, Physical And Mental Risk. It Was Where The Real Gambling Took Place In This Town.

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.

A Really Good Day For Me Is To Write My Book For About Four Hours, Go To The Writing Room For About Four Hours And Then Maybe Come Back To The Book To Finish The Day For A Few More Hours Of It.

It’s Lucky No One Else Knows What Our Most Secret Thoughts Are. We’d All Be Seen For The Cunning, Self-aggrandizing Fools We Are.

I Realize Now I Could Have Gotten A Whole Book Out Of That And So I Think That Was A Big Mistake. But The Truth Is You Write In The Moment And With Your Head Down And There Is No Way Back Then That I Could Have Conceived Of Harry Having The Longevity That He Has Had.