Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.