"I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books."

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"I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books."

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"As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years."

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"My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career."

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"Salvation is neither human effort nor desire."

"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

"Let your love be the light of your life. Now enlighten the whole world with the brightness of that light."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."

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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."

"How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste."

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"Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist."

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"I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life."

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