It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.

Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.