I have never written anything sexually explicit.

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.

You know, my mother had a rule which was people are just people.

E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack

Every birthday celebrates a life because every life is important.

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

I don't know if you call a burger recession food. It's comfort food.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.