Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
Books about suicide make lousy gifts.
Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.