"Revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done."

"It's a good idea to remember that whenever you are at any point in time, you are at a point in time, and you're not at the end of time."

"I make all this shit up and people pay me. It's great, you know, thank you. All right so you guys put my kids through college and I scared the shit out of you while I was doing it. It's terrific. It's…"

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

"I don't mean to put down anybody's taste but they were all lovey-dovey, you know, and he got all sparkly. So that kind of spoiled that."