I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

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

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.

I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.

A job is a very healthy thing to do.

We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.

A cluttered refrigerator door is to a growing family what a wet nose is to a healthy dog.

The blues - it's kind of like a religion, really.