Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

Happy are those who value what they have, when they have it.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

Most of my show is just improvisation. It goes with the energy of the crowd.

I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.