Everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me and I'm pretty good at helping them get there. I think we all work together on some level, but for the most part, we're on our own.

I don't do any corporate work.

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party.

There are a million really good cigars, you gotta really float around cigars. It's not like being locked into a brand of cigarettes; at least to me it's not.

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.