I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.