The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.