Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.