If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

I can't not put humor in a book.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor.

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly and [if] there is no situation to face it falls away of its own weight.

Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.

I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

Hence the solution lies in finding a means of so readjusting this exclusive element to the family of nations, that the basis of the Jewish question will be permanently removed.

Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!

In my lowest moments, when I genuinely longed for death, I knew that Jesus would walk with me through that valley as well.

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.