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.

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.

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.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

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

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.