Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children..

Me and Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel and Dana Carvey wrote a script called 'Hans and Franz: The Girlyman Dilemma,' and it was going to be co-produc….

If you got the truth, you put it out there, and everybody says, "Oh, my God. That's me." And then they improvise also. They take off, as well..

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathema….

All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not beca….

There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run..

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline..

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on..

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in you….

Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new t….

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all….

There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom..

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read i….

It is much more rewarding to do more with less..

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you th….

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing..

Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after..

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us..

I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally..

Make sure you have legal cover for what you're doing..