I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

I can't not put humor in a book.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

It's hard to answer the question "what's wrong?" when nothing is right.

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.