When You Slip On A Banana Peel,

Working As A Journalist Is Exactly Like Being A Wallflower At An Orgy.

[on The Screenplay For "when Harry Met Sally"] It Struck Me That The Movies Had Spent More Than Half A Century Saying, "they Lived Happily Ever After" And The Following Quarter Century Warning That They'll Be Lucky To Make It Through The Weekend. Possibly Now We Are Now Entering A Third Era In Which The Movies Will Be Sounding A Note Of Cautious Optimism: You Know, It Just Might Work.

[on George W. Bush:] How Is It Possible That The President Is Off On Vacation And The Vice President Is, Too? Not That It Matters That Much If The President Is On Vacation; On Some Level, The President Is Always On Vacation.

You Get To Be A Certain Age And You Start Reading Stuff About The Age You Are, And You Think, What Is Wrong With These People Who Are Writing These Books? Do They Not Have Necks?

Reading Is Everything. Reading Makes Me Feel Like I've Accomplished Something, Learned Something, Become A Better Person. Reading Makes Me Smarter. Reading Gives Me Something To Talk About Later On. Reading Is The Unbelievably Healthy Way My Attention Deficit Disorder Medicates Itself. Reading Is Escape, And The Opposite Of Escape; It's A Way To Make Contact With Reality After A Day Of Making Things Up, And It's A Way Of Making Contact With Someone Else's Imagination After A Day That's All Too Real. Reading Is Grist. Reading Is Bliss.