Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.

The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.