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

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" 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. "

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

" I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people. "

" I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya. "

" Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller. "

" In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip. "

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

" 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. "

" By any objective standard, Joaquin Guzman Loera is an evil man who has caused untold suffering for others. "

" Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is that culture isolated form the surrounding society? Absolutely not. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem. "

" A great review is great. A bad review is the worst. "

" You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't have to tell it. I often will go through a manuscript crossing stuff out, and say, 'This is just too much,' you know? "

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

" If Trump was really looking for Mexicans to pay for the wall, he should put in a call to Sinaloa. They'd probably build it for him. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and so you write about it. "

" 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. "

" Don't kid yourself: The justice system is a business. It's about money. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation. "

" I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know? "

" There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. "

" I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work. "