Writing Is A Concentrated Form Of Thinking.

Talent Is More Erotic When It's Wasted.

It Occurred To Me That Eating Is The Only Form Of Professionalism Most People Ever Attain.

A Mystery Novel Localizes The Awesome Force Of The Real Death Outside The Book, Winds It Tightly In A Plot.

The Family Is The Cradle Of The World's Misinformation.

I Felt Joyce Was An Influence On My Fiction, But In A Very General Way, As A Kind Of Inspiration And A Model For The Beauty Of Language.