Robert B. Parker

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'