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

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

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.

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

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.