Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

Some believe it's destiny, Some believe it's fate, but I believe that happiness is something we create.

I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other.

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.