Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.
“I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.”
“I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.”