Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.