[Like they say, ] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

The brain can be a dangerous thing. Even more so if you haven't got one.

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

There is always hope for man or dog in life if only they be cute

I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.

Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation.

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.