When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.