New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.