I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

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.

How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?

I don't watch myself gener­ally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.