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.

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

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

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

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.

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

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