To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be interested in. I'm just not particularly interested in pop culture. I think I am more interested in things that have a settled permanence about them.

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

I am very much a Republican.