A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

It is so easy to exist instead of live.

When I'm falling, my girlfriends are my soft landing.