story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

It only cost Mitt Romney $76.6 million to defeat a serial adulterer and a mental patient in a sweater vest.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?

‎Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.

'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.