My life was a mystery even as I lived it.

Don't like small talk, love rainy days.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

Tweets about the mundane aspects of your life contain something that is vitally important to gaining followers and taking part in discussions: Authenticity.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!

The whole romanticized sad clown thing, we have to get rid of that. That has to go. That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

Reclaiming the belly laugh can cure a world of woes.

It's much easier to do something that's seen as being serious because people accept it right away, they don't question what you do, they just accept, because they think you must be right.

Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.