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

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with 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.

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

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

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 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.