Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

I've learned... that everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Everyone hates war, everyone says.

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.