My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Being rich and thin isn't everything.

Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?