Movies are an expensive business.

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.

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

It's not the pizza, darlin', its my masculine presence." Joe Morelli

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.