Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.