When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry. If you’re not lying awake at night worrying about it, the reader isn’t going to, either. I always know that when I get a good night’s sleep, the next day I’m not going to get any work done. Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It’s not all inspirational.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.

If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.