I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

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

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.

I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.