The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.