The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.

One of the sad things about this political season is that it allows [requires] us to get behind our big "Liberal" or "Conservative" banner and forget, for a time, that the big problems in our country have been around a long time and have been batted back and forth, caused and exacerbated, by both sides, and are more spiritual or ethical than [merely] political.

Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.

I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.

I think the biggest single issue is income inequity and what this is doing to the good old "American dream." This and corporatism - this delusional idea that "shareholder value" outweighs everything else.