For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

When it comes to the core of who we are, it takes incredible effort to shift more than one standard deviation from the mean of your life.

My son hit his head on a couch and pushed it away. He never went near that couch again. It is amazing what and 1 year old boy can teach you about life.

For some strange reason I get some of my brightest ideas on the toilet seat, with my clothes on.

Dreaming is easy. Creativity is a lot of work.

Three people I take their words with a grain of salt: a person in love, a drunk and an insurance agent. They never really mean exactly what they say.

If I knew what I know today, years ago, I wouldn’t change a thing about anything. I would not have appreciated what I know today if it hadn’t been for what I didn’t know.

I have found that there is indeed a secret to a happy marriage. It is called perspective.

Try to control your anger before it burns your life.

The greatest riddle of all.... the riddle of man! The complex mystery of the universal human being as he stands wihtin the threshold of universal laws. This is the most fascinating puzzle!

If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't, but either way, you've got to live through this.

Oh, hey, maybe I should have mentioned that my friends are retarded douchebags.

You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

White folks still in the lead.

all my wealth is in my memories.