To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.