Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

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

Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island.

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.

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.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.