We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.