In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
“I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.”
“People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.”