I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.