That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.

Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.

If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.

Our food is transformed from the moment when its sowed, cultured, grown, until its ready to serve.Our desires are likewise.

But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he looked like a sheep I take back all is this morning. It is genuine.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.

people are all there is to an organization

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.