There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.

The Monster’s crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.

A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface of an ocean. What is the difference between the information carried in the words of a novel and the information carried on the waves of the sea? Listen, and the waves will speak, and someday, I tell you, you will write your thoughts on the surface of the sea.