I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in on a slant, it doesn't tell you what it is. It's unexpected and it makes you laugh and think.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting people.