If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

A boy has to peddle his book.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.