When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.

Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?