One Thing Worse Than Self-hatred

Readers, Not Critics, Are The People Who Determine A Book's Eventual Fate.

Every Writer Has His Favorite Coterie Of Enemies: Mine Is The East Coast Literati -- Those Prep School Playmates And Their Ivy League Colleagues.

There Has Never Been An 'original' Sin: Each Is Quite Banal.

To Be Alive Is To Take Risks; To Be Always Safe And Secure Is Death.

Love Implies Anger. The Man Who Is Angered By Nothing Cares About Nothing.