In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.

I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.

Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same side of your brain when you write as when you improv.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

I work hard, but in spurts.