No matter what my fucking last words were, please say they were these: 'I have always known that the pursuit of excellence is a lethal habit.
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
We’ll be back, with more ashes for you! el jefe had shouted. You
Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
My brain is sending poison to my heart, he told Homer...
It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if not altogether acceptable) behavior of male writers; it would surely benefit me, as a writer, if I h...
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
Because who can describe the look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Wh...
And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
When an orphan is depressed, wrote Wilbur Larch, he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at least a vigorous enterprise, it keeps you on your toes by making you suddenly responsible for what happens...
THE BRITISH NEVER WATCH BASEBALL!
On his bedside table, between the reading lamp and the telephone, was his battered copy of David Copperfield. Homer didn't have to open the book to know how the story began. Whether I shall turn out t...
Bees are a model society, a lesson in teamwork!
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and...
What is this fascination the world has with death?
Sic transit gloria mundi.
Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing.
Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.