The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.

Be the fire when they feel cold, you go out, they are without

I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher's class? No. No. It doesn't happen, 'cause there's no thought of getting along.

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.

Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.

Come with me if you want to live!

Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.