Bob Fenster

I believe in head fakes, the crossover step and going the other way. Also, if you’re not half-cynical, you’re missing the news.

I think that as soon as you say you’re going to die young and leave a beautiful corpse, it’s too late. But also, what the hell do you think anyone is going to do with that beautiful corpse? Remember the women who threw themselves into volcanoes when Valentino died? They’d never met the star and wouldn’t have liked him if they had.

I believe the idiots have been running things long enough. On the other hand, it’s the smart guys who will do us in. If anything is going to save our collective butt, it will come out of nowhere. I only say that because the stuff we already know about doesn’t look that promising.

I think there has never been a politician who uttered the word freedom and actually meant it.

I believe in dark chocolate, black coffee and straight whiskey. Also, long running catches and short love affairs.

I follow Johnny Cash, Etta James, Al Green, Joe Ely, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Curtis Mayfield and Roy Zimmerman. I maintain that Reacher would be dead before he ever saw Parker coming. I can see Mel Gibson as a kind of Parker, but no way Tom Cruise can ever be Reacher. I think Luc Besson knows how to make exciting movies, but Quentin Tarantino is a second-rate hack disguising himself as a first-rate hack.

As a kid, it seemed to me that the world was a crazy place, but I grew up in NYC so it made sense. The best thing about being a writer is that if you have no useful skills or talents, it doesn't make any difference. Also, the hours are good because you're both always working and never working.

If you haven’t figured it out by now, I was born in Brooklyn but live in Northern California, root for the Giants and don’t care who knows it.

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