You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.