If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

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.

[P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.

Life is so precious! Live with love, joy, happiness, and abundance.

How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.

Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.

If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !

To each our own Hamlet.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.

I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.