I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

Life is just a Box of Chocolates.

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.