No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.

You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.