The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.