I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.