I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

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.

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 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.

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.

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