Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.