I was totally absorbed in the real world the politics the history the news and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel it was in fits and starts.

My mother Lillie Specter was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie he's a bummer to have around especially as President.

I've been to war and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying and the consequences are serious.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues you know and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally and it changed my complete outlook on music.

I mean music totally comes from your soul.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies which is kind of like me but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.

I'd see movies comedies and I loved 'Animal House' I loved all the John Hughes stuff but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.