Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.