A Novelist Has Two Lives--

Most Of My Childhood Revolved Around Wondering When We Would Be Blown Up By The Russians. I Couldn't Stand The News, I Knew That If The Missile Were Launched, Mortality Would Arrive In Half An Hour, So I Spent A Lot Of My Childhood Feeling That I Was 30 Minutes From Being Dead.

I Was An Only Child. I've Known Only Children. From This Experience, I Do Believe That The Children Should Outnumber The Parents.

As Soon As You Bring Up Money, I Notice, Conversation Gets Sociological, Then Political, Then Moral.

I'm A Natural Novelist. I'm Interested In The Person And The Group, And How They Mesh. And One Of The Ways I Don't Want Them To Mesh Is For The Person To Be Subsumed Into The Group.

Your Sons Weren't Made To Like You. That's What Grandchildren Are For.