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.

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

There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.

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

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.