If I Can Tell You The Story

In A Given Scene I May Know Nothing More Than How It's Supposed To End, Most Of The Time Not Even That. Scenes Are Improvised. A Character Does Or Says Something, And With As Much Spontaneity And Schizophrenia As I Can Muster, Another Character Responds. In This Way, Everything I Write Is Spontaneous Chain Reaction And I'm Running Around Playing Leapfrog In My Brain Trying To "be" All My People.

And What Is The Religion Of Many Persons But A Kind Of Demonism That Delights In Human Sacrifices And Causes Them To Look With Horror On The Greatest Part Of Mankind? Plutarch, It Is Well Known, Has Observed Very Justly That It Is Better Not To Believe In A God Than To Believe Him To Be A Capricious And Malevolent Being.

I Don't Write Police Stories, Per Se, But I Usually Write About Areas That Are Very Panoramic, Like Harlem, Or The Lower East Side, Or A Small Urban City Like Jersey City.

I Think The Definition Of An Artist Is Not Necessarily Tied Into Excellence Or Talent; An Artist Is Somebody Who, If You Took Away Their Freedom To Make Art, Would Lose Their Mind.

As The Industry Has Matured, Real Estate Has Become A Very Accepted Investment. Institutions Have Used Core Investments To Get Comfortable With Real Estate As An Asset Class, And Now That They're Comfortable They're Moving Up The Risk Spectrum.