I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.

I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.

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

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.

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

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.

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