Yeah. Floyd is his batman.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

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.

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

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.