Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
If you're a writer, you're always working.