Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.