I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.

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.

Guide valiantly.Guide venerably.Guide valiantly.Guide virtuously.

I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that's all you're going to get back.

I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me.

Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead...'

I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.

Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.