Worry destroys the ability to write.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.