Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

I'm a big fan of the digestive system.

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.

I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

In life,there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.

The darkest night is ignorance.

If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.