You have music in your heart

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.Miss Marple

Becoming a writer is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career.

I'm a lot less serious than people think.

The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.

I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

No matter where you go, no matter where you live, a Kansas fan is a Kansas fan: implacable, insufferable and perfectly happy to stay that way.

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.