Freedom from something is not freedom.
In some ways, what I need is a wife.
If you want to do something, try it! The worst anyone you ask for help can do is say no.
I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world.
If you want to write for T. V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.
There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise.
I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.
I'm not the biggest fan of comedies where nothing is real.
The more readings a novel has, even contradictory, the better. In journalism, you talk about what you know; you have provided yourself with records, you have gathered information, you have performed interviews. In a novel, you talk about what you don't know, because the novel comes from the unconscious. They are very different relationships with words and with the world. In journalism, you talk about trees; in the novel, you try to talk about the forest.
I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.
When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.