An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account. The head writer of the I Love Lucy show, Madelyn Pugh, was a schoolmate of mine. Dan Wakefield. Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.