The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in and plunge too far.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

There is a scientific explanation behind everything. Finding it depends on whether you give in to the much simpler supernatural explanation.

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

I just wanna see some football.

I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.