My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun. ' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader. . . He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.