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.

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

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

There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.

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

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.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.