Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.

Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

Thanks, it's my own recipe. I use cheddar cheese instead of water.

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.

What holds attention determines action.