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

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

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.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

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

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

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.