Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.