“The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness …” — S. J. Rozan

The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.

Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.