If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.