Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.