A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers Chucky.

When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.

My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

My dad was a cross-country truck driver.

My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.

I can't talk, or I will throw up!

A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion.

I take friendship very seriously.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than unemployment.

The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.

Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.

Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.