If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

So that's our new flag. The thing we've been fighting for-thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.

Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

Meditation becomes easier if you drop all your ambitions and desires.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin the world. We need to come at it from a civil place.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

Nobody heard anything ahead of time.