The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

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.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.