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.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

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

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?

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

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

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.