Most fan fiction is terrible.

Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.

Publishing is definitely something you do because you enjoy educating or entertaining people.

The heart can't beat next to a mind full of questions.

The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.

A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don't want to say something stupid.

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.