One of the great advantages ofhaving a library, your eminence, is that it is full of books.

Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

When it's all said and done remember, "You are only as old as you look.

Courage in the final analysis is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.

We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.