I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a "downer." And yet to be masturbated by an appealing masseuse, to be in the physical presence of a woman with whom there was some communication and understanding, if not love, was gratifying and fun.