When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.

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.

The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Beautiful is greater than Good for it includes the Good.

The present will not long endure.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

This is a fantastic fight for the championship. I'm really confident and believe we can do it.

It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind.

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.