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.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

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.

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