Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way around. God writes a lot of comedy, its just that he has so many bad actors.

The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.