I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

I loved Cookie [Mueller]. She was a much better writer than actress. She shouldn't have stuck with me in the beginning; she should have immediately become a writer. She would have had more of a chance.

I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer.

I keep very close in touch with the fans - to see what they like. I'm very in touch with my audience; I get older and they get younger, which I think is the ultimate compliment. I think hitchhiking brought a few of them out! Even though all young people have never hitchhiked, all people my age did at one point in their life, they just don't do it now.