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.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.