Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

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

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.