'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

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

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

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.

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

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

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.