If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

Don't plant your days they turn into weeds

People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.