It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.