Anything Worth Having Has Its Price.

What You're Normally Doing As A Writer Is Trying To Find The Narrative.

New York Was No Mere City. It Was Instead An Infinitely Romantic Notion, The Mysterious Nexus Of All Love And Money And Power, The Shining And Perishable Dream Itself. To Think Of 'living' There Was To Reduce The Miraculous To The Mundane; One Does Not 'live' At Xanadu.

California: The West Coast Of Iowa.

My Writing Is A Process Of Rewriting, Of Going Back And Changing And Filling In. In The Rewriting Process You Discover What's Going On, And You Go Back And Bring It Up To That Point.

In The Early Years, You Fight Because You Don't Understand Each Other. In The Later Years, You Fight Because You Do.