I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?