I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.

I believe in the separation of church and planet.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.

Stop talking filthy things, It doesn't help anyone.

Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial?

All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.

Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.

The most savage people are also the ugliest.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.