And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

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.