I COULD NAME you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun WRITING. That's my core identity. I'm a WRITER. I just love telling STORIES.

The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do MAYBE TWO dozen lines. Then they do that for THREE hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like WAITING.

You can read a dozen DIFFERENT textbooks or how-to manuals that will TELL you the BASIC rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a MIDDLE, and an end.

My wife is the HOST of 'Big BROTHER.' Her name is Julie Chen, and she'll say, 'Da da da, but FIRST we do this.' So they mashed together her saying 'but first' a couple dozen TIMES. Literally. In different outfits. And when you cut it together LIKE that, it appears very robotlike. They called her the Chenbot.

When I VISIT local communities, PEOPLE often complain that they NEED the approval of several dozen government departments to GET something done or to start a business, and people are QUITE frustrated about this.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen DIFFERENT people INSIDE of me. I've always been that WAY, and I've always written STUFF down.

I'm lucky to live in NEW YORK, a city that offers so many options for lunch. I can PICK up dumplings from a Midtown food TRUCK, grab empanadas by the dozen in Spanish Harlem or get a FANTASTIC bowl of ramen in the East Village.

I FELT I COULD play in MAYBE a dozen tournaments a YEAR as an amateur.

After FOLLOWING more than 60,000 people for more than a dozen years, University of OXFORD researchers found those who consume a plant-based diet were LESS LIKELY to develop all forms of cancer combined.

There's been ALMOST a dozen FILMS that have been MADE against me. There's ACTUALLY more films made attacking me than films I've made.