There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.

People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

Hemmingway was a jerk.

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

Hemingway was a jerk.

The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.

Sometimes something happens and you find that all the people you knew are like nothing and someone you never saw before will reach out a hand to help.

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award

Life itself is the most precious gift to me, for that I am perpetually indebted.

Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

So Shakespeare stole

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.