A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Health food makes me sick.

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.