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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.