You know your flaws, don't hide them. Embrace them.

Do not argue with a spuse who is packing your parachute.

My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky

Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.

I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.

I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

Every man lives by exchanging.

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.

I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.