Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.