Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

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

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.