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.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.