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

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.

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

It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none.

Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.

One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things.

Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.

Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.