I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.