Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

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.

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

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 got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

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