"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."

"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."

"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business."

"The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it."

"TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press."

"I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny."

"Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot."

"'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did."