I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

You get up in the morning because you might meet a woman. And if you stay at home by yourself, alone, you will not meet a woman.

I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world.

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.