Yeah. Floyd is his batman.

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

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

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

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

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.