I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.

Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.

She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That's a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.

... occasionally I see rich-looking women on Rollerblades gripping leashes and being towed bodily by golden retrievers. That's my kind of jogging.

I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.

My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.