I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?

Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others

If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.

Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.

I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.