Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated.

No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD.

Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

I leave with sadness, but also with pride.

What is happening to Donald Trump in terms of the way he's being reported on and cast with the media is the way every Republican presidential candidate has been treated in my life.

The doctor says he has to amputate all of me.

I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.