Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.

It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that I've written. I could look these things up; I have no interest in them. I don't know how much money I have. There are a lot of things I just don't care about.

The regional voice is the universal voice.