I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way. – Steve Martin
When your hobbies get in the way of your work – thats OK but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves… well. – Steve Martin
A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. – Steve Martin
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art youre an idiot. – Steve Martin
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. – George Saunders