You're lucky if you find something you like to do, and it's a miracle if somebody will pay you to do it.

Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else. Thank you, Confucious.

Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.

Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.

When my son, Jack, was four, I had to make a trip to Los Angeles. I asked him if he was going to miss me. 'Not so much,' Jack told me. 'You're not going to miss me?' I said. Jack shook his head, and he said, 'Love means you can never be apart.

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

I looked into her eyes. "Mom, who do you pray to?" I just pray, Daniel. That's all.