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

- Gary Reilly

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…

- Gary Reilly

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…

- Gary Reilly

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

- Gary Reilly

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…

- Gary Reilly

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

- Gary Reilly

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.

- Gary Reilly

Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.

- Gary Reilly

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…

- Gary Reilly