It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your wor….

I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies-I felt like saying “Howdy cousin,” to everybody who walked by..

Adverbs and cops always come in pairs..

... occasionally I see rich-looking women on Rollerblades gripping leashes and being towed bodily by golden retrievers. That's my kind of jogging..

I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better..

I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of “unsold.” I've seen quite a few movies where the screenplays se….

A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and be….

She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That's a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works..

Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience..

My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own co….

I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob. I always say if you ne….

I guided my heap into the heart of Capitol Hill wondering for the first time in fourteen years what I could do to get money besides drive cabs or rob….

Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an ….

I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus..

One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a novel by Albert Camu….

That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words “working” and “normal” in the same sentence, ….

Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer..