People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.