I don't know whether it's normal or not, but sex has always been something that I take seriously. I would put it higher than tennis on my list of constructive things to do.

I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage.

Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still remembers that one bad review.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.

Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.