Writing lets you be, say, and do anything. It's sugar for your ego and wings for your ideas.

Persistence is a writer's best friend disguised as a bully.

The sensation Ihad experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of namelesslonging.

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it's also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

Look after your wife; never mind yourself--she'll look after you.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.