Martini Shot: Everyone is on Something (Transcript)

Years ago, when I told my agent that I had written a book, she said to me: "Hey, if you want eight hundred dollars, I'll give you eight hundred dollars."

But I published it anyway—and a second one, in fact—and though she was wrong in the specifics, she got the general gist of the compensation right.  Put it this way: both books got a nice reception, but neither one gave me any tax trouble.