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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.