It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

All my father saw was what he wanted to see.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.