I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.

Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option.

It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm relatively indifferent about, just because I'm not educated on it, if I go to someone who is educated about it and is passionate about it. I find a point of fiction and then give it to them.

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.