Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

All autobiography is fiction.

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.

In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.

While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light beats into heaven.

I'm Jewish in the way Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

Come with me into the woods where spring isadvancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but oneof the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

You’re a cow Give me some milk Or else go home

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

We wanted the best, but it turned out as always.