I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

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.

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

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.

I am neither moral or immoral. I am amoral, and I express it through my kindness.

the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

As loud voices argue on, let us remember that those who advocate abortion have already been born!

If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.