Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

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.

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.