I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell

After all, tomorrow is another day!

You ought to pray, read and mediate on word of God. These acts lead to the greatest spiritual awaken.

In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't.

Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.