I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.