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

This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.

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.

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.