Sleep is death without the responsibility.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. [...] The other problem I have is fear of writing. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] Not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. [...] It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. Especially when it goes on for years. It's much more relaxing actually to work.

I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.