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.

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

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

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.