I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.