I used to sit in my pickup truck at 7 o’clock in the morning outside my office and listen to the Replacements or something full blast, thinking, ‘What am I doing here?’ George Pelecanos Read Quote
For many years, I did ride-alongs with patrol cops, which is any citizen’s right. George Pelecanos Read Quote
There is nothing like the rumble of a dual-piped American car with something under the hood. George Pelecanos Read Quote
Sometimes I think ‘The Wire’ said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels. George Pelecanos Read Quote
The cliche is that Washington is a transient town of people who blow in and out every four years with the new administrations. But the reality is that people have lived in Washington for generations, and their lives are worth examining, I think. George Pelecanos Read Quote