"My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I'm grateful for."

“There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”

Source : "A qualified optimist" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2003.

“I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.”

“Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com

“Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.”

“Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.”

Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

“Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy, fear, paranoia, guilt and uncertainty. Celebrities can be born overnight. Writer's can't. Writers are made - forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities - over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same writer you become.”

“What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.”