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

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

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.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman.

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

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