Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.

Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.

Practicing security means continually turning towards the best version of yourself.

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

The [Sarah ]Palin endorsement as sort of vouching for Donald Trump is all about. She is the sort of tribune of not conservatism as ideology.

The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

Performing is always my biggest rush. The energy is boundless from a great crowd.

The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas