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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.