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

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

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

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

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.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.