What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in Sherlock's situations. As a writer, you have to be of two minds.

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.