Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.

I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.

I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy