The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.