In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.