It occurred to me, having written a couple of 600-page tomes, that if you want to say something intricate about something as disorganized, confused, and interconnected as an American city, you want to stay for the whole season on a single story,

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

This is one of these things where, yes, something may have occurred before this one earthquake, but we don't see that kind of signal everywhere before big earthquakes.

It just occurred to me that everybody was on their treadmill doing the best they could and, not to denigrate anybody, but everybody's vision was really small. The success in this state has gone from, 'We are an outdoors place' to 'I wonder if I can find a couple of million bucks to fund this one deal.' And the success, frankly, is pathetic.

I did not know at first what ailed me. At last it occurred to me that what I had lost was a country.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.