No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.

You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.

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

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.

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.