I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

I'm a lucky guy. I get to sit around every day and indulge in make believe and get paid for it.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.