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

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!

Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]....We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.