Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.