Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.