I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferociousdefence? One might have supposed him amply capable of lookingafter himself.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Russia has banned all adoptions to Americans. So, if you were hoping to get a little white kid with fetal alcohol syndrome, you're going to have to wait until Lindsay Lohan reproduces.

I know how to win. You can't win unless you have a great temperament.

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

People don't want truth, they just want trash.

I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it.