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.

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.

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.