I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.

Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.

Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.

You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders, ' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

To find your self, get lost is the search of knowledge and wisdom.

I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl.

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

Positive thinking is the most powerful thing in the world.