I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.

A man can be in two different places and he will be two different men. Maybe if you think of more places he will be more men, but two is enough for now.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.

I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.

I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.