Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.

I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

Mushy reviews are a breach of faith

The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.