A book is a good substitute for a man. Fiction, preferably

If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze

It is, admittedly, a base foodstuff, but lobster, well prepared, can nevertheless be made to satisfy the distinguished gourmand.

Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

I feel good hitting in the three-hole. I guess that's where everybody wants to be. You want the responsibility of hitting in the middle of the lineup.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Just eat less and exercise more.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.