Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

We tried to change Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam changed us.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.

If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don't need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don't even need [analog] tape.