Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.

He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way they were now.

It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.

A lot of times people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes — saving.

As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.