I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.
He glanced at his watch: three twenty-seven in the afternoon, more or less. With a Rolex, he'd discovered, more or less had to be good enough.
A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.
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.
These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.
That's my sense of how crime works: that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating.
I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.
Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.
As a journalist, I interviewed people, and you begin to feel different rhythms in speech, and you can use those things to help carve out a character.
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.
Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.
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.
Working for the 'Miami Herald' in 1972, I covered street action for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Miami and saw probably the most violent conventions ever - more violent than even 1968 in Chicago.
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.
I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.
If you actually hang out in the countryside, which I did, it's actually quite peaceful.
I'm somewhat depressive.
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.
I've always had a fascination with the technical and small-scale aspects of life - the national media seem to have more interest in the sweeping political views.
