I cannot find words to express the depth of my loss or outrage about what's happening to this country. I don't know if I can find the words for it, but if this country ever recovers, it will not be in my lifetime. If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.