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" As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath. "

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" I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer. "

" We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally. "

" The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off. "

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" My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many. "

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" I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed. "

" The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner city communities. Who has a personal and professional interest in lowering that violence? Cops. "

" You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books. "

" So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. "

" As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They're just different, like your kids, even if they look alike. "

" My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid. "

" I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working. "

" When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence. "

" The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there. "

" I used to joke that my next book would be about puppies that have lost a chew toy, and everywhere they went, people were nice and gave them things until they found the chew toy. "

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" We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want the bad guys stopped and the good guys unmolested. That's great for the consumer; try providing it. "

" As someone who has researched and written about the Mexican cartels and the futile 'war on drugs' for coming on twenty years, I know how tough a subject it is. Mind-bending, soul-warping, heartbreaking, it challenges your intellect, your beliefs, your faith in humanity and God. "

" Police work in major cities - and New York is no exception - has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built his career on it. "

" For a while, many years ago, my job was to get mugged. My job was to walk around Times Square trying to get a mugger to attack me so that someone else could come in and arrest the mugger. "

" I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida. "