If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

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.

Ask yourself, if they getting married, would you be upset if you weren't invited? If the answer is no, then that's an easy name to cross off your list.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.

I don't want to put anyone down, but you won't see any twerking from me.

Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!