Doubt Is Faith's Shadow.

With Regard To Power, Women Don't Have The Vanity Men Have. They Don't Need To Make Power Visible, They Only Want The Power To Give Them The Other Things They Want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They Are Rational, Power-seeking Planners, Who Think Beyond The Battle, Beyond The Victory Celebrations. And Because They Have An Inborn Capacity To See Weakness In Their Victims, They Know Instinctively When And How To Strike. And When To Stop. You Can't Learn That.

I Wasn't That Into Crime Novels At All, But A Friend Introduced Me To The Work Of Jim Thompson - I Loved All His Books.

Ever Since I Was In My Teens I Had Plans At One Point In My Life To Write A Novel.

When You Go Visiting Countries, You Start Reading The History Of The Place And You Start Getting Into The Culture, And Then You Have To Leave. In My Experience, All Countries Have Hidden Treasures.

. We Have This Attitude That People Become Drug Addicts Against Their Will. That They Couldn’t Possibly Want This Kind Of Life. But Maybe That’s Not True. Maybe They Don’t Want To Live Like Other People — It Just Wouldn’t Suit Them.