Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

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.

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

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.