It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.