Great minds sink alike, right?

The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.