"I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'"

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

"After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime."

"I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting."

"Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off."

"You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have."

"Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound."

"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."