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

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

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.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.