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.

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.

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

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

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.

It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

There is no metaphor for death. All comparisons are odious, but I'll do one anyway. We all have these moments of harsh clarity where we realize that something is gone, whether that is youth, whether that is someone we care about, whether that is where we literally lose someone we care about to death. Or we end a relationship that we thought would last forever, or have one ended for us. We all have these moments in life where it seems impossible to fill up the time that we have left for us, and yet we have to do it somehow.