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

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.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

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

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.

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