Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.