Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

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

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

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 was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.