I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.