Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

An empty man is full of himself.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.