I always had more women working for me than men.

There are no client conflicts, only bad explanations.

Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.

Sometimes I go home, put the game on, and think, 'How can I miss that?' It affects you; it also affects you to know your career also depends on the opinion of journalists, fans, directors, and sometimes they're not really qualified to judge.

When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.