I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.