It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.

I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

One of the great advantages ofhaving a library, your eminence, is that it is full of books.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

I was already set for life when I met her.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

You can have a kid and just be off at work all the time, and it's all mom. But, I spent a lot of time with him, so now, every time I see him, he's like, "Dada!"

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.