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.

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

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.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

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

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

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