It was mainly opportunists and locals, ... We've had a few out of state. They hit convenience stores. We had so much destruction that it was pretty easy pickings. If I have to, I'd stack them in the hall (at the jail). If you loot, you go to jail.

We don't have professional burglars here. We have opportunists.

JGB prices dropped, hit mainly by firmer stock prices.

That was it. Suddenly you hit puberty, and it's like, you know, thrift stores! I just started deconstructing everything from thrift stores.

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything I'd attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasn't up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.

We would be able to put them in nearby stores to where they live now, just over the state line. They are all close to the border.