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

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.

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

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.

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

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

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