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"Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget."

"I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now."

"Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it."
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"So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before."
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"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."


"I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it."


"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."


"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."


"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."


"I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women."


"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves."


"I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know."
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