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

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

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

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

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.

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