As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

So you're gone and i'm hauntedAnd i bet you are just fineDid i make it that easy to walkRight in and out of my life

Remind yourself daily to spend more time being interested then interesting.

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

The American people have got a touchstone: Which party voted for the tools necessary to protect America and which party didn't? And that's what I'm trying to get people to focus on.

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukaemia.

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!