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 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.

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

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

Yeah. Floyd is his batman.

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.

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