I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
