The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.

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

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I wake up many mornings, and it almost wouldn't surprise me if I woke up from it and it was all a dream.

If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would just stop writing. I wouldn't find that interesting. I would feel that I had committed so many things to the paper that I couldn't easily undo because one thing leads to the next, the interconnectedness, the sequences would make it very hard to change something that simply didn't work.

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.