I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

Doorbells are like a magic game, Or the grab-bag at a fair -- You never know when you hear one ring Who may be waiting there.

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Can you even imagine not hugging?

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

Hard to move on when you always regret one.

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.

I like being surrounded by great people.

I love my brother. I miss my brother.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.