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

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

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

This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

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.

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

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.