I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.

Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]