Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.