I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

She was feeling her bohemian oats.

The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.

I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself.

Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself.

You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.

Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey