I'm sure if Brawn GP keep plying me with champagne and putting gorgeous Virgin girls either side of me, you never know!
The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.
But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black audiences won't come out for a white writer for the most part. It really is just a fact of life.
If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.
I can write any kind of novel I want, any time, and sell it, but there's not that many people watching it. Even a low-rated TV show is a couple million more people than read my books. You want to be read, in essence. If you're a television writer, you're a writer and you want people to read your stuff. You're still reaching a bigger audience, that way. That's a philosophical way to look at it.
In Europe, I'm recognized on the street sometimes. And that's cool, because I don't have to live there and deal with it every day. Unless you're Stephen King - a great writer, by the way, and anyone who says different knows nothing about the craft - you're more likely to be recognized in America if you play in a soap opera than if you're a novelist.
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.
Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.
Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.