I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

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