The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.