I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

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.

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.

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.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

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