I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years.….

As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it..

When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words..

I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you. You start out with some notion of it, bu….

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible..

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me..

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the s….

Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a mi….

I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me that I can't deny the urge to writ….

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing..

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something with this!".

If this enormous pressure didn't exist, I wouldn't have been elected. It would have been one of the usual candidates..

Donald Trump is the head of a global power..

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It'….

Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters..

Nothing good ever comes without a price..

How you start your day is how you live your day..

It is not just do do do. It is not just be be be. It is do be do be do..

I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate sc….

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato..

I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go..