The Short Story, I Should Point Out,

The Short Story, I Should Point Out, Is Perforce A Labor Of Love In Today's Literary World; There's Precious Little Economic Incentive To Write One.

As My Late Mother Famously Observed, The One Thing To Be Said For Growing Old Is That Every Year There Are A Few More Things I Don’t Have To Give A Rat’s Ass About.

I Wouldn't Presume To Define Noir - If We Could Define It, We Wouldn't Need To Use A French Word For It - But It Seems To Me It's More A Way Of Looking At The World Than What One Sees.

I Don't Plan An Awful Lot In Life Just As I Don't Plan An Awful Lot In My Fiction.

Everybody's Weird, Fundamentally Everybody Is A Snap. Sometimes It's A Sexual Thing And Sometimes It's A Different Kind Of Weirdness, But One Way Or Another Everybody's Nuts.