Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.