I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single

Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell

Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

It’s comforting to me, ” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.