Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.

Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.

When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.

I'm not saying that photographers are dumber than other people, but they are the folks who walk around with brilliant white lights in nighttime riots.

People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away.

There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.