When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.

To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.

We're doing everything in our power to make sure all the names are spelled correctly. We have up to eight weeks before they deliver the monument from Vermont to make any corrections in the spellings.

I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.

the worst thing, " he told me, "is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters.

I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.