"Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways."

“A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.”

Source : "Joshua Ferris Reads George Saunders" by Sally Law, www.newyorker.com. August 10, 2009.

“Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of day. Imagination becomes for you a magic lamp with which to search the darkness of the unknown, that you may discover new goals or chart more productive paths to old goals.”

“Today I find it's extremely hard to launch one's brand, and that's also why we are helping these young talents.”

“Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.”

“Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.”

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

“People come up to me on the street and say, 'Men at Work (1990) is the funniest movie I ever saw in my life'. But, you know, I do have to question how many movies these people have seen.”

“I think we've put ourselves in a position that if we can go into the Big East and compete at the level that we aspire to compete at, we'll get out of this what we want.”

“I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.”