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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.
Most of my work is, I get an idea, and, with the help of Wikipedia, I can write. I don't have to leave my apartment.
I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.
I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
