There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.

Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.

I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it.

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.