Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.
“People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.”
“When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.”