Every book should have a romance.

I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.