My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.

Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable and that your life matters. Listen. The birds are singing your name.

I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

The further you go, the more you're going to need the people you started with.

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!

I mean, if you could have a wizard grant a wish, would you waste it on going to Kansas?

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.