Booze And Tobacco And Lots Of Sex.

Stories Are Like Assholes. Everybody's Got One And Most Of 'em Stink.

If Fate Sends You A Lemon, Use It To Make Lemonade.

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.

I Never Know What I'm Going To Write Next, And When I Think I Do I Usually Turn Out To Be Mistaken.

The Less Attention I Pay To What People Want And The More Attention I Pay To Just Writing The Book I Want To Write, The Better I Do.