...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

It's pain that changes our lives.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them & nobody ever takes note of it 'cause it's not the answer they wanted to hear-what they want to hear is here's how you get an agent, here's how you write a script, here's how you do this-but I always say, “Be so good they can't ignore you.” If somebody's thinking, “How can I be really good?” people are going to come to you. It's much easier doing it that way than going to cocktail parties.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.