My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

The principal aim of a vision quest is to ‘see’ a spirit animal that will become the quester’s animal-helper and source of his power.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.