Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times.

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.