Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

To enjoy a beautiful life, always believe in your heart that life is wonderful.

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the broad, real range of ideas.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Television is completely another medium.

Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

What’s the point of being a magician if you can’t wave your wand and make the people you care about feel better?

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife

I want to live. I didn't have time to die.