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

Traveling wears me out.

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

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

So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived

think of nothing things think of wind

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.