I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.