What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, "We all do.

She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all.

I don't believe in ghosts but they blindly believe in me

Half of life is lost in charming others.The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.Leave this play. You have played enough.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

The White House is apparently pushing to create more Latino-themed landmarks. Now that's in addition to our current Latino-themed landmark, California.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.