'The Rocky Horror Show' was actually my first musical love.

'The Room' is relationships. The room is you and me and everyone in America. That's basically what 'The Room' is.

'The Rose Society' was definitely the hardest book I've ever written, because it's so difficult to stay in that dark space.

'The Royals' has emerged as a breakout series that has become one of E Network's highest rated shows.

'The Sandberg Game' comes up all the time. Fans tell me where they were. They were driving down the highway, they were in the bleachers, they were downtown listening on the radio, they were on the farm on a tractor. I've heard all the stories where people have been. They're just amazed by the ending of the game and the thrill of it.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high -- or low, depending on your point of view -- in its excessiveness, in its extremities.

'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.

'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.

'The Secret Agent' remains the most brilliant novelistic study of terrorism as viewed from the blood-spattered outside. But 'Under Western Eyes' dares to leap inside -- not only into the terrorist mind, but also into the troubled zone that divides West from East, 'the autocracy in mystic vestments.'

'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.

'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story.

'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.

'The September Issue' is really a film about Anna Wintour's relationship with long time 'Vogue' Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.

'The Shining' scares me so much.

'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

'The Simpsons' appearances were great fun. But I don't take them too seriously. I think 'The Simpsons' have treated my disability responsibly.

'The Simpsons' basically -- and 'Futurama' -- are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.

'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms -- you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention -- and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and... obsequious.