Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence of a lifetime. An individual's armor that had been developed to resist pain and rejection might also block a capacity for pleasure and achievement, and feelings too deeply trapped might be released only by acts of self-destruction or harm to others. Reich was convinced that sexual deprivation and frustration motivated much of the world's chaos and warfare.

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.