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

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

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

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.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

A colorful body with fabrics, tattoos and jewelry is attractive, but a colorful heart with love, truth and faith is beautiful.

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

Don't wait till tomorrow to start your dream. Moreover, didn't you say yesterday that you would start today?

When the gods are angry with a man they give him what he asks for.

I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

As long as we are not living in harmony with nature and our constitution, we cannot expect ourselves to be really healed. Ayurveda gives us the means

Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.