Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.