When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

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.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

Every man as he loveth quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.

I think you can only be outgoing when the person you're talking to is outgoing. I can be outgoing if I want to be, if you meet me halfway.

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

President Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering America.

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

The best of women are hypocrites.