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Every Writer Knows That Unless You Were Born Gifted With Either Supreme Confidence Or Outsize Ego, Handing In Your Work Holds, In Some Cases, Admitted Terror. If That's Too Strong, At Least Fairly High Anxiety.

To Label Me An Intellectual Is A Misunderstanding Of What That Is.

I Like When The Ice Gets Thin, The Going Gets Rough, The Guests Get Edgy.

The Very Phrase 'oscar Night' Used To Accelerate My Pulse. For One Thing - Dating Myself - It Meant Bob Hope. He Always Had Good, Strong Jokes, That Faultless Delivery, And Always A New Joke About His Own Films' Failure - Once Again - To Be Honored.

The Authority Of Depression Is Horrifying. I Felt Like My Brain Was Busted And That I Could Never Feel Good Again. I Really Thought That I Was Never Gonna Heal.