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.
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.
My kids, who are grown now and living in L.A., are used to me packing up and taking off to somewhere weird.
If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.
I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
