Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.

Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.

Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.