Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital?

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?