I Can't Persuade Myself That

Everybody's Weird, Fundamentally Everybody Is A Snap. Sometimes It's A Sexual Thing And Sometimes It's A Different Kind Of Weirdness, But One Way Or Another Everybody's Nuts.

I Wouldn't Presume To Define Noir - If We Could Define It, We Wouldn't Need To Use A French Word For It - But It Seems To Me It's More A Way Of Looking At The World Than What One Sees.

If You Want To Write Fiction, The Best Thing You Can Do Is Take Two Aspirins, Lie Down In A Dark Room, And Wait For The Feeling To Pass.

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.

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