There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat