The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

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

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

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.

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.