Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

When I was a kid I worried that when I woke up, I'd find my family having breakfast with my doppelgänger. We would fight to the death, and then my family would peacefully finish breakfast.

Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

I had actually, after the Paris attacks in this country, we all patted ourselves on the back and said, "Well, we have a much more assimilated Muslim population here than they do in Europe."

I'm too conceited for therapy.

Be passionate. If you are passionate, you will ultimately succeed.

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.