I Write Very Quickly; I Rewrite Very

If Watching Television Doesn't Hasten Death, It Surely Manages To Make Death Very Inviting; For Television So Shamelessly Sentimentalizes And Romanticizes Death That It Makes The Living Feel They Have Missed Something - Just By Staying Alive.

There Are Few Things As Seemingly Untouched By The Real World As A Child Asleep.

Goodnight You Princes Of Maine, You Kings Of New England.

I Have No Respect For The Right-to-life Position, Though I Have Every Respect For An Individual Who Says, "i Could Never Have That Procedure, I Could Never See A Film Or Read A Book About That Procedure." It Doesn't Bother Me If People Feel That Way.

I Always Begin With A Character Or Characters, And Then Try To Think Up As Much Action For Them As Possible.