Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other.

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?

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.

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

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.