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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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