It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.