I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.
Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: "I don't read fiction, but my wife does. Would you sign the book to her?" What are those men doing there? And where are their wives?
My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.
My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy.
A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
There's been quite a few conversations between me and my wife; she'd like to see my hair brown again. So who knows what will happen.
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
If anything, I label myself as sort of Buddhist. My wife Jane is Buddhist.
For me, it's just a decision I made at home with my wife that I'm not eating meat.
If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.
I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas, but my wife wouldn't let me.
A good wife maketh a good husband.
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.
They asked me to go on 'Hell's Kitchen' but I'm banned from reality TV by my wife. She's not up for that kind of tomfoolery.
My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!
