If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

There is a sacred lesson in any situation.

English. That was where I met him.

The Gospel is the walking life, not the walking dead.

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

If I had one wish for my children it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much.

Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.

But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.