Never use the words 'suddenly' or 'all hell broke loose.'

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

Never use the words 'suddenly' or 'all hell broke loose.'

I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.