All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.

I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.

Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end.

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.

I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.

Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.