The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.

Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure.

Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.