Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

You want money... Okay... Now few dollars... then few... then few... and poof everything is gone. That's call failure!

Don't live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt.

Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it.

Time is Money, I am No Ones Honey, Trust Me. I can Make It Dollars Every Second.

The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.

In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman. Homer Simpson

There are those who see a problem and there are those who will not give up until they find a solution - finding a solution is what the Full Stop Foundation is about