It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful writer is I had a very happy childhood.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.