Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

We are sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

...distinction between growth and development. Aggregate growth in national economic indicators need not mean an improved life for the majority of the people.

You're happy when you help others become happy.

On the [Betsy] DeVos case, I agree that the gun - her gun position is kind of weird, kind of crazy, but I do think she does know about public schools.

Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage? Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.