For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.