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.

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.

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

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.

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 don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.