Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

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.

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

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

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!

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman.