Robert B. Parker

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

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

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

It has always been my plan not to serve more than two terms.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.