I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

Life without kids is like a camera without film.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.