An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering.

So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.

I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

Our military has been greatly weakened by a lot of bad decisions and other things.

I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.