There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.