Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
If you have to do it, you can do it.
New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.