Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

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.

Knock yourself out... Or rather, don't.

A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.

If I wrote the word flower, would it still grow like a flower?If I wrote a poem concerning a river, would the water still flow in the eyes of the reader?

I'm going forward with my plans for life. I'm looking at things not only basketball-wise, but personal-wise.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

Fabulosity. It's a state of being.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

Children come into the world with a lot of personality already imbedded in them.

A cat's New Year dream is mostly a bird! Don't be like a cat; in New Year Dream something that you have never dreamed! Target for new things.

Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.