Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
Books about suicide make lousy gifts.
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?
Mushy reviews are a breach of faith
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.