In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters--and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story.

Every one starts out being an atheist.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.