It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.