Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.