It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Sometimes you will do good and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds.

We are not here to question the possible, we are here to challenge the impossible

We're trying to teach artists that if you're smart enough to develop the material, then you're smart enough to market and promote the album too.

If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.

No man can see his own prejudices.

I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.

There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.

Anytime you’re on the podium, it’s good.

Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.