"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

"I’m not a bleeding-heart liberal. I’m a pragmatic liberal."

"If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as yo…"

"When I'm asked for 'the secret of my success' (an absurd idea, that, but impossible to get away from), I sometimes say there are two: I stayed physically healthy, and I stayed married. It's a good ans…"

"I think that we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better--and maybe not all that much better, after all."