Each day we draft a new movement in our symphony of life

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

Sometimes justice is better served by those who have experienced the pain

I am a writer, period!

There are no trophies for the real victories in life.

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.

As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone!

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...