When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. 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.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.