Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.