Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

If the public likes you, you're good.

The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in that there are things that I want to make sure my family is protected when I pass.

Denial of contraception to women without the financial means to afford it could cause substantial economic burdens, and even greater burdens if the lack of contraception results in an unintended pregnancy.

There were times when I didn't have enough money, I didn't have enough work, and I would panic.

I had to let go of many things because we did not have much money growing up. Like joining the Film Institute in Pune or learning the piano.