I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.