I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

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.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship