I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.