Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am I just fulfilling my own expectations - or even worse, somebody else's?

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.