A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.
I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!