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

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

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

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.