Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.
It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.
Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.
Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.
I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.