Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

When God give you a vision, He will give you what you need to accomplish the vision.

Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.

The idea will be to find of focus on crime and issues where there's not a lot of - where Donald Trump can kind of get people's emotions.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.