People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.

That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.