God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.

Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.

You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.

I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.