[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.

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.

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

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.

Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.