I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.

The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.