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

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.

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

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

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

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.