Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.