You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.

Dangers by being despised grow great.

You've got to keep fighting-you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

If you absolutely believe that what you do is right, you're bullet-proof.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.