Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

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

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

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

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.

I will always find a way and a way will always find me.

Life is volatile.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

I've never had guys sit me down and say this is what you've got to do. It's my personality that makes me one of a kind, and I believe that.

Because when I'm a copycat I'm never good! But when I'm Eric Thomas, I'm great! I'm great at what I do!

There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

Corporate tweets are like one robot talking to another.