Infinitely more taboos, on television.

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.

Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.