If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.

While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.

Sleep is death without the responsibility.