Let us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

The most interesting thing I've ever heard about myrself that isn't true is that I'm not a nice guy.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add.

I hadn't really even been thinking about TV. To me, it seemed like such a commitment, almost like a marriage.

God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!

Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.

Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky.

I try so hard to be the best mom that I can be and usually I'm always thinking about how to better my son's life.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.