The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.
The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.
To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.
Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.
You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.
Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.
I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.
What people who are doing shift work or managing shift workers or deciding to put people on shift schedules to begin with should realize that we're not robots.
All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.
