Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

My grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the desert.

One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."--Mike Mankoff

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.

The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

Only love makes fruitful the soul.

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.

With knowing comes caring.