"Writing is work and cooking is relaxing."

"One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook."

"The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but if one makes that a goal like, say, a literary writer has the goal of getting the Pulitzer Prize, that's so unpredictable."

"I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing."

"I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out."

"Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do."

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."

"Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career."