Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

You wanted to be the cheese, ” I said.“The what?" "The cheese, the gooey good stuff that fills in the empty space when a slice is taken away.

Stand firm. Stand tall.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address.