When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.

My Lord, my Lord! What hath Thou done lately?

My experience creatively is different than my experience in life, for, as my father would say, the simple reason that you can't get hurt when everything goes wrong creatively.

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.