Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life.

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

Their marketing strategy had to be changed to the young people. That's who buys the beer.

Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.

ObamaCare is not a 'trainwreck,' it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.