I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

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.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.