Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.

We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.

Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet.

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."