I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.

I am not a morning person.

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.