My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.

I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.

Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?

Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident.