In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Killing is the payoff of war.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

A relationship is the union of two psychological systems.

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

Your mind is in every cell of your body.

Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.

The absence of war is not peace.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.

President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.

I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.