Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surpri….

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art..

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And ….

Hoboken is a neat place..

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert….

Today is the yesterday you won't remember tomorrow..

Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I ….

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing..

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amou….

Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think..

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire..

The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and….

Looking back over my life so far I am able to remember specific days that were perfect. These tend to be days, and parts of days, in which nothing in….

My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams..

Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math..

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chi….

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them..

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?.

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear the….

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how..

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun..