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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.