When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

He that is down need fear no fall.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.

If you ever have to ask someone else's opinion on a trade, you shouldn't be in it.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.

I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.