the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

Anything that can happen to someone else, can happen also to you.

The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it.

Power's twin is responsibility.

From little pain you flinch away but great pain must be embraced.

Pain is a new room in your house.

Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe

A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most.

The future depends on what you do today.

When doing sports... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

Out of the guys, I'm closest to Matthew Perry. He's a great friend. He cracks me up[on the set].

Even 10 minutes of activity changes your brain.

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

There can be no better place than India to manufacture, expand, and grow.

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.