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!

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

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

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

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon