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"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."
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"Being divorced does not necessarily make one's advice on marriage useless - or useful."

"Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles."

"In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers."

"To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while."

"I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch."

"Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass."

"She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him."

"Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash."
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"The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire."

"That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution."

"As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place."

"The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem."

"People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief."

"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."

"Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly."

"It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well."
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