Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!