I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence.

I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law

A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone.

Eternity is really long, especially near the end.

Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.

When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work and their opinion of my work.

I read in self-defense.