When I was young, boys didn't type.

In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

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."

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.