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.

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.

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

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

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

Life is just a Box of Chocolates.