Booze And Tobacco And Lots Of Sex.

Every Year There's A Few More Things I'm Not Sure Of. I've Decided That A Wide-ranging Uncertainty Is The Mark Of The True Maturity Of Man.

If You Build A Better Mousetrap, Nature Will Build A Better Mouse.

Booze And Tobacco And Lots Of Sex. It Keeps A Lad Young.

One Thing That Helps Is To Give Myself Permission To Write Badly. I Tell Myself That I'm Going To Do My Five Or 10 Pages No Matter What, And That I Can Always Tear Them Up The Following Morning If I Want. I'll Have Lost Nothing-writing And Tearing Up Five Pages Would Leave Me No Further Behind Than If I Took The Day Off.

The Short Story, I Should Point Out, Is Perforce A Labor Of Love In Today's Literary World; There's Precious Little Economic Incentive To Write One.