When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.

Never say "never" about anything, because if you do, life has a way of humbling you.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going to happen and then they throw a curveball that you don't see coming.

Things don't happen that fast in real life.

Sometimes you meet someone at an inopportune moment and it doesn't work out, but then you see them again five years later and you're in different places and it's a better time.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.

I see fans all the time. They're always very complimentary and they're always very eager to talk and to share their experiences or get a selfie. They're really, really loyal. And intense.

I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't have interests, it's just that I don't have the time.

Life is INCONCLUSIVE but its about an everlasting FUTURE

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.

The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.

I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'

Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.