A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'