As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would write non-fiction, they often accused me of exaggeration and fictionalization.

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

Don't hold me to anything in the book. I'm a waffler. I like wafflers. They said John Kerry was a waffler, but I admired him for that - showed he could change his mind.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.