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.

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 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.

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.

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

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