Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

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.

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.