"Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds."

"(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car."

"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."

"When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'"

"I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one."

"I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending."

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."