I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.

I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census. Something like ten thousand people lived in one city block.

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

That guy is a star there. We were walking down the street and people were leaning out of their windows saying, 'Bruce Pearl for governor.' They love him up there.

I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer is supposed to be prolific. Since that's how people perceive me, they have to say I'm prolific. But I don't find that either complimentary or accurate.