I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.

First. get clear on how you want to feel. Then, do stuff that makes you feel that way.

How rare to stare into the face of death... Something I never intend to do again.

The march to freedom is irreversible.

Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.

When backed up against a wall, dig deep, demand excellence, stand tall, and be strong.