They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

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.

The Only Way to Do Great Work is To Love What You Do

They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice

Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born.

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris