I’ll take my alkaloid diuretics wherever I can get them. If there isn’t a 7-11 in the vicinity, a Winchell’s donut shop is Plan B. The joe at both places is almost indistinguishable, like the...

A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.

Money can’t buy happiness—but it can buy beer.

I’ve been broke, and I’ve been in debt, and broke is better.

My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.

Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.

up to something.

She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That’s a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.

I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob. I always say if you need fake courage, get it out of a...

Late Friday morning I was driving toward Boulder. I was seated in “Doctor Lovebeads Cosmic Wonderbus and Mobile Mercantile.” That entire phrase was painted in psychedelic colors on both sides of the van. But I...