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

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.

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.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.