No Place Has Delicatessen Like New York.

A Good Writer Is Always A People Watcher.

My Mother Never Talked About Sex. I Was On The Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] Show Once - This Is Years And Years And Years Ago - And It Was Her Mother's Day Show. And I Didn't Know What We Were Going To Talk About But What She Decided We Were Going To Talk About Was Female Masturbation. My Mother Had Invited All Her Girlfriends. And You Know These Were All Women In Their Late Seventy's Maybe They Were In Their Eighty's By Then And Then And They Were Horrified Because Dr Ruth Had A Little She Had A Little Chart Up You Know "female Masturbation".

I Didn't Know Anything About Writers. It Never Occurred To Me They Were Regular People And That I Could Grow Up To Become One, Even Though I Loved To Make Up Stories Inside My Head.

When I'm Writing A Book, You Can't Think About Your Audience. You're Going To Be In Big Trouble If You Think About It. You're Got To Write From Deep Inside.

What's The Point Of Thinking About How It's Going To End When It's Just The Beginning?