Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves.

It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.

Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.

When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.

If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

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