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.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

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

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.