There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.

She was making great money at personal appearances.

I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.

See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.

I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.