The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

Writers are alone. If you're a producer, you know all the other producers out there. If you're a writer, you don't know any of your peers.