Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.

If have nothing but life, I have everything.

If someone is angry with you, it has a reason. To know just put yourself in the same condition and at the place of that one and talk the same arguments

I created 'Rookie' because I read a lot of websites that I thought were cool and interesting, but they weren't for teens, and I wanted us to have something that could be ours.

I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

I think one of the reasons that I love the fans that have stuck around, because I really enjoy writing different kinds of songs. I don't know if I write them well or not, but I can write them.