Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.