Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

I do enjoy animated movies.

I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog while out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.