Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.

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?

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself.