For many years, people would say, "Only child? Must have been terrible," and I wanted to say, "You are mentally ill, because it was the greatest." You got all the attention. You never had to share anything. No one ever ate your food. No one ever took your toys. But the unintended consequence was that I didn't appreciate that being universally loved was not only not required for happiness, but also not possible.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.

I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

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.

Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.