Life is just a Box of Chocolates.

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.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

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

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.

I work seven days a week and I work about 12 hours a day, from the beginning of September to about the end of May; the school year. I take two days off, Christmas and New Year's, Thanksgiving sometimes - two and a half. And the result is that I bonded myself to my desk.

Life is just a Box of Chocolates.