Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.