When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. And then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.

For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.