In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It's the change of venue, the unblocking the attempt to force the ideas that's crippling you when you're trying to write.

Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano.

I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.

I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it's fun to write that. It gives them something to write.

I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.

There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important.