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

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!

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

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