It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.