Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times.

I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.

A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.